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Norcontrol System Used To

Help Tow Draugen Platform 435 Nautical Miles

To help navigate the Draugen platform from Vats to

Haltenbanken, while carefully navi- gating the Qords near Stavenger—a total distance of more than 435 nau- tical miles—the Norcontrol Rig Move

Control Systems was chosen to help.

The Rig Move Operation Control

System was developed and installed by Norcontrol Seacraft a.s., and the actual towing operation was carried out by Norwegian Contractors in

Stavenger.

The Rig Move Control is designed to fulfill all requirements as defined by major oil companies, and it capi- talizes on the latest technology on visualization of electronic sea chart and survey data and operator com- munication technique.

The system can run both on work stations and Personal Computers (PCs), offering the operator the same operational interface on color dis- plays.

Norcontrol Rig Mover Control

Display station is meant to give the helmsman all necessary informa- tion to keep the rig on a planned towing line.

MAXIM fresh water makers onboard!

MAXIM evaporators are "on board" every 90-10 copp type of commercial and military ship, excellent cc offshore platform and fishing vessel around Depend; the world. For more than fifty years, we have the long ha been providing fresh water wherever it's cold water i needed. been better

A wide ran^e of MAXIM standard designs and depenc are available for quick delivery anywhere in service and the world. Stock sizes range from 200 to Beaird Inch 12,000 gal/day. For larger fresh water LA 71130-1 requirements, we custom design units to Fax 318-861 meet your needs, whatever the size.

Available in single effect, multi-effect or multi-stage flash type designs, these units can be operated directiy on steam as well as jacket water, eliminating any need for a secondary heat exchanger. Our single shell design affords optimum space savings and the

See Maxim® Evaporators at the International Maritime Exposition in New York, NY, September 15-17, 1993, Booth #100."

Circle 318 on Reader Service Card 90-1 copper nickel construction provides excellent corrosion resistance.

Dependable, trouble-free operation over th haul...easy maintenance, even in col or heavy silt...few names have ever bee r known than MAXIM for quality an dependability and we back it up with servic d support anywhere, anytime.

Beair Industries, P.O. Box 31115, Shreveport,

L 71130-1115, Phone 318-865-6351,

Fa 318-868-1701.

Miller Introduces 60M Series

Feeder/Controller For Pulsed

MIG Welding

Designed primarily for the pulsed

Gas Metal-Arc (MIG) welding pro- cess, the new 60M microprocessor based wire feeder/controller from

Miller Electric Mfg. Co. features side panel programming controls to meet virtually everyone's needs.

The 60M includes eight preprogrammed synergic pulse

FMAW programs in the control's memory.

Once a program is set, the opera- tor only needs to select the desirec wire feed speed and arc length.

All other parameters ar( synergically set.

For free literature on the nev

Miller Electric Product, call toll frei at: (800) 950-9353.

Mapeco Adds Keyless

Hydraulic Shaft Couplings

To Product Line

Mapeco Products (Locust Valle;

N.Y.), a division of Walz & Krenze

Inc., has added keyless hydraul shaft couplings to its product lin

The addition of the product allov complete shaft fastening packagi to be offered by Mapeco.

The couplings are available in bo' straight designs for joining t\> straight shaft ends or flanged d signs for joining a straight shaft ei to a flanged shaft.

The couplings meet ABS requii ments for factor of safety agair slip of 2.0 for inboard couplings a: 2.8 for outboard couplings.

The reported advantage of tl type of coupling is that it attach onto a straight turned shaft end; keys or tapers are required, nor heat required for installation or moval.

ACR Introduces Lithium-

Battery-Powered, Water-

Activated Rescue Light

ACR Electronics, Inc. has in duced a new, water-activated ] sonal rescue light, the ACR/L8-

The miniature lithium batti powered rescue light contains cuitry which senses water betw two contacts, thus activating light.

A built-in latching circuit po\ the L8-6 for up to 90 seconds, th< is reset with each splash of w that comes into contact with unit.

Featuring a bright, 360-de horizontal 2.5 candela beam w projects for eight hours, the /

L8-6 meets U.S. Coast Guard

SOLAS requirements.

ACR is a leader in safety survival technologies. 120 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News